SKU determination mechanism and API

Details SKU determination mechanism and API SKU determination mechanism and API

2005-10-12

2010-10-19

Sough, Hyung S (Department: 2194)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra

High level application control

C719S328000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07818756

ABSTRACT:
Applications or operating system components requiring a SKU, or other indicator of an operating system, make a call to an API. The calling application passes an indicator of the most current version of an operating system known at the time of the application creation as an argument. This argument may be an indictor of the operating system version, build number, and service pack version, for example. The called API may reference a table of operating system SKUs with the indicator of the most current operating system known to the calling application. If found, the API returns the corresponding SKU to the calling application. If not found, the API returns the SKU corresponding to the closest sequential match to the passed in indicator. The calling application may then execute believing it is using the operating system corresponding to the returned SKU.

REFERENCES:
patent: 6658659 (2003-12-01), Hiller et al.
patent: 2002/0199180 (2002-12-01), Donaldson et al.
patent: 2003/0217188 (2003-11-01), Kung et al.

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